Monthly Archives: May, 2020

science Coronavirus How does a relatively common type of virus turn into one so deadly it could spur a pandemic? The answer may lie in its microscopic spikes. Posted on May 22, 2020, at 12:09 p.m. ET NIAID via Flickr / Via Flickr: niaid Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein BuzzFeed News has reporters around the…

Nurses working with the WHO (World Health Organization) administer the Ebola vaccine to a local doctor at the town all of Mbandaka on May 21, 2018 during the launch of the Ebola vaccination campaign.Junior D. Kannah | AFP | Getty ImagesAt least 80 million children under a year old could be at risk of diseases…

We don’t know about you, but we’re ready to travel. And that typically means flying. We have been thinking through this issue as moms and as an exposure scientist and infectious disease epidemiologist. While we’ve decided personally that we’re not going to fly right now, we will walk you through our thought process on what…

SummaryBackgroundA vaccine to protect against COVID-19 is urgently needed. We aimed to assess the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of a recombinant adenovirus type-5 (Ad5) vectored COVID-19 vaccine expressing the spike glycoprotein of a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) strain.MethodsWe did a dose-escalation, single-centre, open-label, non-randomised, phase 1 trial of an Ad5 vectored COVID-19…

SummaryBackgroundHydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, often in combination with a second-generation macrolide, are being widely used for treatment of COVID-19, despite no conclusive evidence of their benefit. Although generally safe when used for approved indications such as autoimmune disease or malaria, the safety and benefit of these treatment regimens are poorly evaluated in COVID-19.MethodsWe did a multinational…